People and society (Unit 10)

Question 1

relationship (n)

Answer 1

the way two or more people or groups behave towards each other:
What was your relationship with your mother like?

Question 2

connection (n)

Answer 2

a relationship between things or people:
Some journalists are saying that there´s a connection between the criminal and the bank manager.
They´ve connected over reading.

Question 3

blame (n)

Answer 3

responsibility for an accident, problem or bad situation:

Why do I always get the blame for everything?

Question 4

fault (n)

Answer 4

the fact of beeing responsible for a bad or unpleasant situation:
It´s my fault - I forgot to give him the message.

Question 5

old (adj)

Answer 5

something that ist old has existed or been used for a long time:
I´m meeting an old friend for lunch.

Question 6

ancient (adj)

Answer 6

relating to a period of history a very long time ago:

The ancient Egyptians built pyramids for the dead bodies of the kings.

Question 7

crowd (n)

Answer 7

a large number of people in the same place:

The boys disappeared into the crowd.

Question 8

audience (n)

Answer 8

the people who watch or listen to a performance:

His jokes offended many people in the audience.

Question 9

enjoy (v)

Answer 9

to get pleasure from something:

Did you enjoy your meal?

Question 10

please (v)

Answer 10

to make someone feel happy and satisfied:
He´ll do anything to please her.

jmdm. zufriedenstellen/gefallen/eine Freude machen

Question 11

support (v)

Answer 11

to provide someone with the money, food, shelter (Obdach, Hütte) ore other things that they need in order to live:
How can we support our families on such low wages?

Question 12

assist (v)

Answer 12

to help someone or something:

Her job is to assist the head chef.

Question 13

kind (adj)

Answer 13

behaving in a way that shows you care about other people and want to help them:
Thank you, Mark, you´ve been very kind.

Question 14

polite (adj)

Answer 14

behaving towards other people in a pleasant way that follows all the usual rules of society:
It´s not polite to talk with your mouth full of food.

Question 15

sympathetic (adj)

Answer 15

willing to understand someone´s problems and help them:

You´re not beeing very sympathetic.

Question 16

likeable (adj)

Answer 16

pleasant, friendly, and easy to like:

I´ve always found Bill to be a very likeable person.

Question 17

nervous (adj)

Answer 17

feeling excited and worried, or slightly afraid:

Driving on mountain roads always makes me nervous.

Question 18

bad-tempered (adj)

Answer 18

made annoyed or angry very easily:

I don´t like our new history teacher - she´s so bad-tempered!

Question 19

sensitive (adj)

Answer 19

likely to become upset very easily:
Paul was always a very sensitive little boy.

empfindlich/sensibel

Question 20

sensible (adj)

Answer 20

reasonable and practical:
This seems to be a sensible way of dealing with the problem.

vernünftig/sinnvoll

Question 21

company (n)

Answer 21

the activity of being with other people:

I thought you might want some company tonight.

Question 22

group (n)

Answer 22

several people or things that are together or that are related to each other in some way:
Why don´t you join the local drama group?

Question 23

popular (adj)

Answer 23

liked by many people:

Jenny is one of the most popular girls in the school.

Question 24

famous (adj)

Answer 24

if someone or something is famous, a lot of people know their name or have heard of them:
He dreamt of becoming a famous footballer.

Question 25

typical (adj)

Answer 25

behaving in a way that is usual for a particular person:

She respondend with typical enthusiasm.

Question 26

usual (adj)

Answer 26

typical of what happens in most situations, or of what people do in most situations:
She gave us her usual polite smile.

Question 27

ordinary (adj)

Answer 27

normal or average, and not unusual or special:
It was just an ordinary Saturday morning.

gewöhnlich/alltäglich

Question 28

close (adj)

Answer 28

related to you directly, for example by being your parent, child, brother or sister:
All my close relatives live in Oxford.

Question 29

near (adj)

Answer 29

close to someone or something:

A group of students were sanding near the entrance.

Question 30

unknown (adj)

Answer 30

if something is unknown, people do not know about it or do not know what it is:
For some unkown reason, the plane landed at the wrong airport.

Question 31

infamous (adj)

Answer 31

well known for something bad:
Al Capone was an infamous gangster.

berühmt-berüchtigt/infam